Monika Ivkic Denies Offenbach Club Owner's Claims
The singer rejects claims that she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs and says she asked the authorities for help, while the club owner says she slapped her only once.
Singer Monika Ivkic responded on Sunday morning to claims by a club owner in Germany that she was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The owner gave her version of events on Saturday evening, and Ivkic says she has turned to the authorities and will not let her name be tarnished.
What did Monika Ivkic post on Saturday?
She recorded the video in a car on the way home from Offenbach. In it, she shows a bruise under her eye and swelling around it. By her account, the incident happened the night before she posted the video.
In the video, she says she sang at the club for 2 hours and 40 minutes, longer than the agreed working hours. She then describes what happened at the end of the evening:
“The proprietress finally slugged me with her fist, my whole eye swelled up.”
In a written post on social media, she urged fellow performers to check carefully who they agree to perform for and under what conditions. She added: “I will not stay silent about this kind of behavior, nor will I normalize it.”
What does the club owner say?
The owner, who introduced herself to Kurir as Dulinova, rejects everything the singer said. She told the paper: “Nobody attacked her.” She also claims that the photo Ivkic posted is not real but a montage, and that the video was made for marketing.
On the singer’s condition, she said: “I don’t know whether she was drunk or on drugs, but she did not sing.”
The owner also brings up money. According to her, Ivkic received a fee of 2,000 euros:
“I told the girl who brought her, who is probably her manager, that she hadn’t earned the money. But she got 2,000 euros, we even treated the young man who was with her, he can confirm that.”
She says she treated the singer’s colleague with 200 euros. She claims Ivkic demanded another 500 euros and went at her six times with a phone in her hand. She admits she slapped her once, in self-defense. She adds that the singer later called her and asked for another 2,000 euros for a canceled upcoming performance.
How does Ivkic respond to those claims?
On Sunday, the singer said the untruths in circulation needed to be corrected. She first rejected the claim about alcohol and drugs:
“Claims are now being made about me that I was under the influence of alcohol and narcotics, which I most strongly deny.”
She says she is opposed to drugs and the abuse of alcohol. She stresses that she is a citizen of the European Union, that she knows her rights and that she asked the authorities for help. She does not address the money or the amounts the owner cites in her post, and she describes the disputed blow as violence that nothing can justify:
“No misunderstanding, no argument and no money in this world can justify physical violence.”
Ivkic also said she spent the night after the incident without sleep.
Where do the two versions differ?
The posts from both sides show that their accounts diverge on three points: whether the singer was struck or whether the slap was a response to her lunging at the owner, how much money was paid, and what state Ivkic was in that night. The club owner does not dispute that a blow was struck, but she describes it differently than the singer does.
